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MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL’S ICE HOUSE THEATER PROJECT
Audition Material
Contact the directors for information and/or an appointment to
audition before July 16th @ 304-596-1367 or at TomsActors@gmail.com.
In addition to the open roles of Nick and Honey,
please contact us if you are interested in set building, set painting,
backstage assistance, and other crew positions.
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Character Descriptions MARTHA (cast) - a large boisterous woman, 52, looking somewhat younger; ample, but not
fleshy
GEORGE (cast) - her husband, 46; thin, hair going gray
HONEY (available) – mid 20s, a petite girl; rather plain
NICK (available) - late 20s, her husband; well put-together, good-looking
Audition Scenes Scene 1 Nick and Honey with Martha and George ...................................................................... 2
Scene 2 Nick with George .......................................................................................................... 13
Scene 3 Honey and Nick with George and Martha .................................................................... 19
Considerations Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? contains adult language and adult content. The roles of George
and Martha will be played by Tom and Beth Brooks. Performance dates are Sept 19–23, 27–30.
Rehearsal schedule will be dependent on actor availability.
What if I don’t fit the character description? Don’t count yourself out. What’s important is what
you can bring to the role and how you jibe with the others—not what you think we want. The
actor who plays Nick does need to be in decent shape by opening night.
What to Bring Your audition will be at the Ice House at Mercer and Independence Streets in downtown
Berkeley Springs, WV. Bring to your audition:
• An attitude of fun.
• Your summer schedule (all potential conflicts between now and the end of September).
• All contact information.
• Your copy of these audition scenes.
You might also:
• Bring a partner, if you like, to read with opposite you (as either Nick or Honey), whether or not this person wants to audition.
• Be asked to read additional portions of the play.
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AUDITION SCENE 1
NICK AND HONEY WITH MARTHA AND GEORGE
MARTHA
Make me another drink . . . lover.
GEORGE
(Taking her glass)
My God, you can swill it down, can’t you?
MARTHA
(Imitating tiny child)
I’m firsty.
GEORGE
Jesus!
MARTHA
(Swinging around)
Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want
. . . so don’t worry about me!
GEORGE
Martha, I gave you the prize years ago . . . There isn’t an abomination
aware going that you . . .
MARTHA
I swear . . . if you existed I’d divorce you . . .
GEORGE
Well, just stay on your feet, that’s all . . . These people are your guests,
you know, and . . .
MARTHA
I can’t even see you . . . I haven’t been able to see you for years . . .
GEORGE
. . . if you pass out, or throw up, or something . . .
MARTHA
I mean, you’re a blank, a cipher . . .
GEORGE
. . . and try to keep your clothes on, too. There aren’t many more
sickening sights than you with a couple of drinks in you and your skirt
up over your head, you know . . .
MARTHA
. . . a zero . . .
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GEORGE
. . . your heads, I should say . . .
(The front doorbell chimes)
MARTHA
Party! Party!
GEORGE
(Murderously)
I’m really looking forward to this, Martha . . .
MARTHA
(Same)
Go answer the door.
GEORGE
(Not moving)
You answer it.
MARTHA
Get to that door, you.
(He does not move)
I’ll fix you, you . . .
GEORGE
(Fake-spits)
. . . to you . . .
(Door chimes again)
MARTHA
(Shouting . . . to the door)
C’MON IN! (To GEORGE, between her teeth) I said, get over there!
GEORGE
(Moves a little toward the door, smiling slightly)
All right, love . . . whatever love wants. Isn’t it nice the way some
people have manners, though, even in this day and age? Isn’t it nice
that some people won’t just come breaking into other people’s houses
even if they do hear some sub-human monster yowling at ’em from
inside . . . ?
MARTHA
SCREW YOU!
(Simultaneously with MARTHA’s last remark, GEORGE flings open the
front door. HONEY and NICK are framed in the entrance. There is a
brief silence, then . . . )
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GEORGE
(Ostensibly a pleased recognition of HONEY and NICK, but
really satisfaction of having MARTHA’s explosion overheard)
Ahhhhhhhhh!
MARTHA
(A little too loud . . . to cover)
HI! Hi, there . . . c’mon in!
HONEY AND NICK (ad lib)
Hello, here we are . . . hi . . . etc.
GEORGE
(Very matter-of-factly)
You must be our little guests.
MARTHA
Ha, ha, ha, HA! Just ignore old sour-puss over there. C’mon in, kids
. . . give your coats and stuff to sour-puss.
NICK
(Without expression)
Well, now, perhaps we shouldn’t have come . . .
HONEY
Yes . . . it is late, and . . .
MARTHA
Late! Are you kidding? Throw your stuff down anywhere and c’mon
in.
GEORGE
(Vaguely . . . walking away)
Anywhere . . . furniture, floor . . . doesn’t make any difference around
this place.
NICK
(To HONEY)
I told you we shouldn’t have come.
MARTHA
(Stentorian)
I said c’mon in! Now c’mon!
HONEY
(Giggling a little as she and NICK advance)
Oh, dear.
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GEORGE
(Imitating HONEY’s giggle)
Hee, hee, hee, hee.
MARTHA
(Swinging on GEORGE)
Look, muckmouth . . . you cut that out!
GEORGE
(Innocent and hurt)
Martha! (To HONEY and NICK) Martha’s a devil with language; she
really is.
MARTHA
Hey kids . . . sit down.
HONEY
(As she sits)
Oh, isn’t this lovely!
NICK
(Perfunctorily)
Yes indeed . . . very handsome.
MARTHA
Well, thanks.
NICK
(Indicating the abstract painting)
Who . . . who did the . . . ?
MARTHA
That? Oh, that’s by . . .
GEORGE
. . . some Greek with a mustache Martha attacked on night in . . .
HONEY
(To save the situation)
Oh, ho, ho, ho, HO.
NICK
It’s got a . . . a . . .
GEORGE
A quiet intensity?
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NICK
Well, no . . . a . . .
GEORGE
Oh. (Pause) Well, then, a certain noisy relaxed quality, maybe?
NICK
(Knows what GEORGE is doing, but stays grimly, coolly polite)
No. What I meant was . . .
GEORGE
How about . . . uh . . . a quietly noisy relaxed intensity.
HONEY
Dear! You’re being joshed.
NICK
(Cold)
I’m aware of that.
(A brief, awkward silence)
GEORGE
(Truly)
I am sorry.
(NICK nods condescending forgiveness)
What it is, actually . . . is it’s a pictorial representation of the order of
Martha’s mind.
MARTHA
Ha, ha, ha, HA! Make the kids a drink, George. What do you want, kids?
What do you want to drink, hunh?
NICK
Honey? What would you like?
HONEY
I don’t know, dear. A little brandy, maybe. Never mix—never worry.”
(She giggles)
GEORGE
Brandy? Just brandy? Simple; simple. (Moves to the portable bar) What
about you . . . uh . . .
NICK
Bourbon on the rocks, if you don’t mind.
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GEORGE
(As he makes drinks)
Mind? No, I don’t mind. I don’t think I mind. Martha? Rubbing
alcohol for you?
MARTHA
Sure. “Never mix—never worry.”
GEORGE
Martha’s tastes in liquor have come down . . . simplified over the years
. . . crystallized. Back when I was courting Martha—well, I don’t know
if that exactly the right word for it—but back when I was courting
Martha . . .
MARTHA
(Cheerfully)
Screw, sweetie!
GEORGE
(Returning with HONEY and NICK’s drinks)
At any rate, back when I was courting Martha, she’d order the
damnedest things! You wouldn’t believe it! We’d go into a bar . . . you
know, a bar . . . a whiskey, beer, and bourbon bar . . . and what she’d
do would be, she screw up her face, and think real hard, and come up
with . . . brandy Alexanders, creme de cacao frappes, gimlets, flaming
punch bowls . . . seven layer liqueur things.
MARTHA
They were good . . . I liked them.
GEORGE
Real lady-like little drinkies.
MARTHA
Hey, where’s my rubbing alcohol?
GEORGE
(Returning to the portable bar)
But the years have brought to Martha a sense of essentials . . . the
knowledge that cream is for coffee, lime juice for pies . . . and alcohol
(Brings MARTHA her drink) pure and simple . . . here you are, angel . . .
for the pure and simple. (Raises his glass) For the mind’s blind eye, the
heart’s ease, and the liver’s craw. Down the hatch, all.
MARTHA
(To them all)
Cheers, dears. (They all drink) You have a real poetic nature, George
. . . a Dylan Thomas-y quality that gets me right where I live.
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GEORGE
Vulgar girl! With guests here!
MARTHA
Ha, ha, ha, ha! (To HONEY and NICK) Hey; hey!
(Sings, conducts with her drink in her hand. HONEY joins in toward
the end)
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf,
Virginia Woolf,
Virginia Woolf,
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf . . .
(MARTHA and HONEY laugh; NICK smiles)
HONEY
Oh, wasn’t that funny? That was so funny . . .
NICK
(Snapping to)
Yes . . . yes, it was.
MARTHA
I thought I’d bust a gut; I really did . . . I really thought I’d bust a gut
laughing. George didn’t like it . . . George didn’t think it was funny at
all.
GEORGE
Lord, Martha, do we have to go through this again?
MARTHA
I’m trying to shame you into a sense of humor, angel, that’s all.
GEORGE
(Over-patiently; to HONEY and NICK)
Martha didn’t think I laughed loud enough. Martha thinks that unless
. . . as she demurely puts it . . . that unless you “bust a gut” you aren’t
amused. You know? Unless you carry on like a hyena you aren’t having
any fun.
HONEY
Well, I certainly had fun . . . it was a wonderful party.
NICK
(attempting enthusiasm)
Yes . . . it certainly was.
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HONEY
(To MARTHA)
And your father! He’s so marvelous!
NICK
(As above)
Yes . . . yes, he is.
HONEY
Oh, I tell you.
MARTHA
(Genuinely proud)
He’s quite a guy, isn’t he? Quite a guy.
GEORGE
(At NICK)
And you’d better believe it!
HONEY
(Admonishing GEORGE)
Ohhhhhhhhh! He’s a wonderful man!
GEORGE
I’m not trying to tear him down. He’s a god, we all know that.
MARTHA
You lay off my father!
GEORGE
Yes, love. (To NICK) All I mean is . . . when you’ve had as many of
these faculty parties as I have . . .
NICK
(Killing the attempted rapport)
I rather appreciated it. I mean, aside from enjoying it, I appreciated it.
You know, when you’re new at a place . . .
(GEORGE eyes him suspiciously)
Meeting everyone, getting introduced around . . . getting to know some
of the men . . . When I was teaching in Kansas . . .
HONEY
You won’t believe it, but we had to make our own way, all by ourselves
. . . isn’t that right, dear?
NICK
Yes, it is . . . We . . .
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HONEY
. . . We had to make our own way . . . I had to go up to the wives . . .
in the library, or at the supermarket . . . and say, “Hello, I’m new here
. . . you must be Mrs. So-and-so, Doctor So-and-so’s wife.” It really
wasn’t very nice at all.
MARTHA
Well, Daddy knows how to run things.
NICK
(Not enough enthusiasm)
He’s a remarkable man.
MARTHA
You bet your sweet life.
GEORGE
(To NICK . . . a confidence, but not whispered)
Let me tell you as secret, baby. There are easier things in the world, if
you happen to be teaching at a university, there are easier things than
being married to the daughter of the president of that university. There
are easier things in this world.
MARTHA
(Loud . . . to no one in particular)
It should be an extraordinary opportunity . . . for some men it would be
the chance of a lifetime!
GEORGE
(To NICK . . . a solemn wink)
There are, believe me, easier things in this world.
NICK
Well I can understand how it might make for some . . . awkwardness,
perhaps . . . conceivably, but . . .
MARTHA
Some men would give their right arm for the chance!
GEORGE
(Quietly)
Alas, Martha, in reality it works out that the sacrifice is usually of a
somewhat more private portion of the anatomy.
MARTHA
(A snarl of dismissal and contempt)
NYYYYAAAAHHHHH!
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HONEY
(Rising quickly)
I wonder if you could show me where the . . . (Her voice trails off)
GEORGE
(To MARTHA, indicating HONEY)
Martha . . .
NICK
(To HONEY)
Are you all right?
HONEY
Of course, dear. I want to . . . put some powder on my nose.
GEORGE
(As MARTHA is not getting up)
Martha, won’t you show her where we keep the . . . euphemism?
MARTHA
Hm? What? Oh! Sure! (Rises) I’m sorry, c’mon. I want to show you
the house.
HONEY
I think I’d like to . . .
MARTHA
. . . wash up? Sure . . . c’mon with me. (Takes HONEY by the arm. To the
men) You two do some men talk for a while.
HONEY
(To NICK)
We’ll be back, dear.
MARTHA
(To GEORGE)
Honestly, George, you burn me up!
GEORGE
(Happily)
All right.
MARTHA
You really do, George.
GEORGE
O.K., Martha . . . O.K. Just . . . trot along.
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MARTHA
You really do.
GEORGE
O.K. O.K. Vanish.
MARTHA
(Practically dragging HONEY out with her)
C’mon . . .
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AUDITION SCENE 2
NICK WITH GEORGE
GEORGE, by himself: NICK reenters.
NICK
(After a silence)
I . . . guess . . . she’s all right. (No answer) She . . . really shouldn’t drink.
(No answer) She’s . . . frail. (No answer) Uh . . . slim-hipped, as you’d
have it. (GEORGE smiles vaguely) I’m really very sorry.
GEORGE
(Quietly)
Where’s my little yum yum? Where’s Martha?
NICK
She’s making coffee . . . in the kitchen. She . . . gets sick quite easily.
GEORGE
(Preoccupied)
Martha? Oh no, Martha hasn’t been sick a day in her life, unless you
count the time she spends in the rest home . . .
NICK
(He, too, quietly)
No, no, my wife . . . my wife gets sick quite easily. Your wife is Martha.
GEORGE
(With some rue)
Oh, yes . . . I know.
NICK
(A statement of fact)
She doesn’t really spend any time in a rest home.
GEORGE
Your wife?
NICK
No. Yours.
GEORGE
Oh! Mine. (Pause) No, no, she doesn’t . . . I would; I mean if I were
. . . her . . . she . . . I would. But I’m not . . . and so I don’t. (Pause) I’d
like to, though. It gets pretty bouncy around here sometimes.
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NICK
(Coolly)
I’m sure.
GEORGE
Well, you saw an example of it.
NICK
I try not to . . .
GEORGE
Get involved. Um? Is that right?
NICK
Yes . . . that’s right.
GEORGE
I’d imagine not.
NICK
I find it . . . embarrassing.
GEORGE
(Sarcastic)
Oh, you do, hunh?
NICK
Yes. Really. Quite.
GEORGE
(Mimicking him)
Yes. Really. Quite. (Then aloud, but to himself) IT’S DISGUSTING!
NICK
Now look! I didn’t have anything . . .
GEORGE
DISGUSTING! (Quietly, but with great intensity) Do you think I like that
. . . whatever-it-is . . . ridiculing me, tearing me down, in front of . . .
(Waves his hand in a gesture of contemptuous dismissal) YOU? Do you think I
care for it?
NICK
(Cold—unfriendly)
Well, no . . . I don’t imagine you care for it at all.
GEORGE
Oh, you don’t imagine it, hunh?
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NICK
(Antagonistic)
No . . . I don’t. I don’t imagine you do!
GEORGE
(Withering)
Your sympathy disarms me . . . your . . . your compassion makes me
weep! Large, salty, unscientific tears!
NICK
(With great disdain)
I just don’t see why you feel you have to subject other people to it.
GEORGE
I?
NICK
If you and your . . . wife . . . want to go at each other, like a couple of
. . .
GEORGE
I! Why I want to!
NICK
. . . animals, I don’t see why you don’t do it when there aren’t any . . .
GEORGE
(Laughing through his anger)
Why, you smug, self-righteous little . . .
NICK
(A genuine threat)
CAN . . . IT . . . MISTER!
(Silence)
Just . . . watch it!
GEORGE
. . . scientist.
NICK
I’ve never hit an older man.
GEORGE
(Considers it)
Oh. (Pause) You just hit younger men . . . and children . . . women. . .
birds. (Sees that NICK is not amused) Well, you’re quite right, of course.
It isn’t the prettiest spectacle . . . seeing a couple of middle-aged types
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hacking away at each other, getting all red in the face and winded,
missing half the time.
NICK
Oh, you two don’t miss . . . you two are pretty good. Impressive.
GEORGE
And impressive things impress you, don’t they? You’re . . . easily
impressed . . . sort of a . . . pragmatic idealism.
NICK
(A tight smile)
No, it’s that sometimes I can admire things that I don’t admire. Now,
flagellation isn’t my idea of good times, but . . .
GEORGE
. . . but you can admire a good flagellator . . . a real pro.
NICK
Unh-hunh . . . yeah.
GEORGE
Your wife throws up a lot, eh?
NICK
I didn’t say that . . . I said she gets sick quite easily.
GEORGE
Oh. I thought by sick you meant . . .
NICK
Well, it’s true . . . She . . . does throw up a lot. Once she starts . . .
there’s practically no stopping her . . . I mean, she’ll go right on . . . for
hours. Not all the time, but . . . regularly.
GEORGE
You can tell time by her, hunh?
NICK
Just about.
GEORGE
Drink?
NICK
Sure (With no emotion, except the faintest distaste, as GEORGE takes
his glass to the bar) I married her because she was pregnant.
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(Pause)
GEORGE
Oh? (Pause) But you said you didn’t have any children . . . When I
asked you, you said . . .
NICK
She wasn’t . . . really. It was a hysterical pregnancy. She blew up, and
then she went down.
GEORGE
And while she was up, you married her.
NICK
And then she went down.
(They both laugh, and are a little surprised that they do)
GEORGE
Uh . . . Bourbon is right.
NICK
Uh . . . yes, Bourbon.
GEORGE
(At the bar, still)
When I was sixteen and going to prep school, during the Punic Wars,
a bunch of us used to go into New York on the first day of vacations,
before we fanned out to our homes, and in the evening this bunch of
us used to go to this gin mill owned by the gangster-father of one of
us—for this was during the Great Experiment, or Prohibition, as it is
more frequently called, and it was a bad time for the liquor lobby, but
a fine time for the crooks and the cops—and we would go to this gin
mill, and we would drink with the grown-ups and listen to the jazz.
And one time, in the bunch of us, there was this boy who was fifteen,
and he had killed his mother with a shotgun some years before—
accidentally, completely accidentally, without even an unconscious
motivation, I have no doubt, no doubt at all—and this one evening
this boy went with us, and we ordered our drinks, and when it came
his turn he said, I’ll have bergin . . . give me some bergin, please . . .
bergin and water. Well, we all laughed . . . he was blond and he had the
face of a cherub, and we all laughed, and his cheeks went red and the
color rose in his neck, and the assistant crook who had taken our order
told people at the next table what the boy had said, and then they
laughed, and then more people were told and the laughter grew, and
more people and more laughter, and no one was laughing more than
us, and none of us more than the boy who had shot his mother. And
soon, everyone in the gin mill knew what the laughter was about, and
everyone started ordering bergin, and laughing when they ordered it.
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And soon, of course, the laughter became less general, but it did not
subsite, entirely, for a very long time, for always at this table or at that
someone would order bergin and a new area of laughter would rise.
We drank free that night, and we were brought champagne by the
management, by the gangster-father of one of us. And, of course, we
suffered the next day, each of us, alone, on his train away from New
York, each of us with a grown-up’s hangover . . . but it was the grandest
day of my . . . youth.
(Hands NICK a drink on the word)
NICK
(Very quietly)
Thank you. What . . . what happened to the boy . . . the boy who had
shot his mother?
GEORGE
I won’t tell you.
NICK
All right.
GEORGE
The following summer, on a country road, with his learner’s permit in
his pocket and his father on the front seat to his right, he swerved the
car, to avoid a porcupine, and drove straight into a large tree.
NICK
(Faintly pleading)
No.
GEORGE
He was not killed, of course. And in the hospital, when he was
conscious and out of danger, and when they told him that his father
was dead, he began to laugh, I have been told, and his laughter grew
and he would not stop, and it was not until after they jammed a needle
into his arm, not until after that, until his consciousness slipped away
from him, that his laughter subsided . . . stopped. And when he was
recovered from his injuries enough so that he could be moved without
damage should he struggle, he was put into an asylum. That was thirty
years ago.
NICK
Is he . . . still there?
GEORGE
Oh, yes. And I am told that for these thirty years he has . . . not . . .
uttered . . . one . . . sound.
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AUDITION SCENE 3
HONEY AND NICK WITH GEORGE AND MARTHA
MARTHA
Here we are, a little shaky, but on our feet.
GEORGE
Goodie.
NICK
What? Oh . . . OH! Hi, Honey . . . you better?
HONEY
A little bit, dear . . . I’d better sit down, though.
NICK
Sure . . . c’mon . . . you sit by me.
HONEY
Thank you, dear.
GEORGE
(Beneath his breath)
Touching . . . touching.
MARTHA
(To GEORGE)
Well? Aren’t you going to apologize?
GEORGE
(Squinting)
For what, Martha?
MARTHA
For making the little lady throw up, what else?
GEORGE
I did not make her throw up.
MARTHA
You most certainly did!
GEORGE
I did not!
HONEY
(Papal gesture)
No, now . . . no.
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MARTHA
(To GEORGE)
Well, who do you think did . . . Sexy over there? You think he made
his own little wife sick?
GEORGE
(Helpfully)
Well, you make me sick.
MARTHA
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
HONEY
No, now. I . . . I throw up . . . I mean, I get sick . . . occasionally, all by
myself . . . without any reason.
GEORGE
Is that a fact?
NICK
You’re . . . you’re delicate, Honey.
HONEY
(Proudly)
I’ve always done it.
GEORGE
Like Big Ben.
NICK
(A warning)
Watch it!
HONEY
And the doctors say there’s nothing wrong with me . . . organically.
You know?
NICK
Of course there isn’t.
HONEY
Why, just before we got married, I developed . . . appendicitis . . . or
everybody thought it was appendicitis . . . but it turned out to be . . . it
was a . . . (Laughs briefly) . . . false alarm.
(GEORGE and NICK exchange glances)
Morgan Arts Council Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Audition Packet
2018 Ice House Theater Project 21
MARTHA
(To GEORGE)
Get me a drink.
(GEORGE moves to the bar)
George makes everybody sick . . . When our son was just a little boy,
he used to . . .
GEORGE
Don’t, Martha.
MARTHA
. . . he used to throw up all the time, because of George . . .
GEORGE
I said, don’t!